[Bug testsuite/34328] RHEL 10.2, make installcheck refuses to start, gives unclear warning

[mike_itguy at Yahoo dot co.uk]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34328

--- Comment #4 from Mike <mike_itguy at Yahoo dot co.uk> ---

I found the cause:  'expect' was missing , and I found this by accident when I
ran "runtest --version" and it reported that expect was not on the PATH.  I had
rather hoped that the presence of a requred component could be asserted earlier
on.

I noticed that when I had rehearsed this on RHEL 9.8 last week, I did not need
to separately install the expect command on RHEL 9.8. Perhaps there has been
some packaging change between 9.8 and 10.2 which may have caused this.

It is strange that the command "expect" was not asserted to be present (e.g. by
configure or by `make installcheck` or otherwise.  

It would be much better if the error message was improved, for example to
assert the presence on the path of dejagnu, runtest, expect. 

In any case the immediate problem is cured, although it would be so much better
if somehow the required assertions could be done up front to improve the
clarity of the error messsage.

Otherwise you can close this ticket.

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